The attacks and mass panics of 2013 reduced most of the city of Racine to rubble. Today the ruins are home to a few desperate scavengers and small, stone-age equivalent tribes locked into a constant state of war with each other. Some try to escape this life by becoming mercenaries or muscle for anyone willing to let them migrate. Most tribes will allow safe passage in exchange for goods they can't produce themselves; anyone forced to travel through this area would be well advised to carry a supply of gaudy trinkets. All tribes are eager to acquire modern weapons, but they have little to trade for them except slaves, either from among their own members or captured from rival tribes. Unscrupulous merchants will sometimes exchange a few steel blades or crude firearms for a source of cheap labor.
Fort Purgatory, a police/military post put in place by the Waltzer regime, maintains a precarious government presence in the former downtown area of the ruined city.
Union Grove, a semi-rural village on the outskirts of the county, fared better due to its relative isolation. However, isolation has its drawbacks. Today the village is inhabited by crazed, inbred cannibal groups, rumored to include the Red Church (5.3.5)
Fort Purgatory, a police/military post put in place by the Waltzer regime, maintains a precarious government presence in the former downtown area of the ruined city.
Union Grove, a semi-rural village on the outskirts of the county, fared better due to its relative isolation. However, isolation has its drawbacks. Today the village is inhabited by crazed, inbred cannibal groups, rumored to include the Red Church (5.3.5)
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